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Featured: Vicki

Name: VickiSpotify account: Account Location: Sydney, Australia Most Memorable Mixtape Moment: Back in the early 2000’s I was a huge Ween tragic, and was always perplexed by how their genius was so misunderstood. It got to the point where I made Ween mixtapes and kept them on me at all times, because I always knew on a night out I would end up trying to convince a stranger that there was more to Ween than Push Th’ Little Daisies. So, as they protested I would hand the mixes out and ask them to listen. Sometimes we exchanged numbers, sometimes we didn’t. I like to think I changed a lot of hearts and minds this way.  A song you want people to hear and why: It’s not a Ween song! It’s actually Xenia Rubinos’ Laugh Clown. A song that opens with the extremely relatable “I haven’t plucked my eyebrows since last month/ One of these days I’m gonna let my moustache grow back in”. Her album Terry Cat was my most played album of 2019. Check it out!! How do you discover new music: These days, Spotify …

Featured: Benjamin Løzninger

Name: Benjamin LøzningerSpotify account: https://open.spotify.com/user/lozningerLocation: Brooklyn, USA + France Most memorable mixtape moment: When there was no internet and that you had to record songs on tapes while playing indie radio shows.  A song you want people to hear and why:  (That’s SUCH a hard one to just choose ONE song but for now:) “Sea Foam” by Land Of Talk, such an underrated band, and that song (and the whole album) conveys so much energy, emotions and beauty.  How do you discover new music:  As an exercise, I’ve been releasing a “FrenchBK mixtape” every month for the past few years, with new songs so that I can discover new bands all the time. A song someone has sent you on a mixtape:  “Feed me with your kiss” by My Bloody Valentine, it was a very long time ago but it changed my perspective on music forever. Benjamin is involved in so many projects that he probably doesn’t know them all himself… He’s mostly a French visual artist, musician-singer-producer, art director & graphic designer. He shares his time between …